“If you’re smart you can’t possibly represent America.”
– Tom Morello
Never has there been a time when Americans needed to rage more against the machine. As we weather a perfect storm of a Great Depression-like financial meltdown, a war that’s more costly (in so many ways) than Vietnam, and daily scandals that make Watergate look like a Boy Scout prank, guitarist, singer and songwriter Tom Morello is raging hard, on stage, on CD, and on the streets, where he’s repeatedly risked his own life and liberty fighting what he believes are the true forces of evil.
A Harvard Political Science graduate, Morello has seen democracy in action both as an insider, while working for a United States senator, and on the frontlines. He faced a pitched battle with 700 riot police while participating in protests outside the Pepsi Center in Denver during the recent Democratic National Convention and days later was threatened with arrest while attempting to perform with his band at a rally on the Capital Lawn in St. Paul during the Republican National Convention. Despite skirmishes with the authorities at both events, Morello refused to be silenced.
Having expressed his anger loudly with his bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, in 2007 he found a quieter voice with One Man Revolution, his first solo release under The Nightwatchman moniker. On September 30, The Nightwatchman returns with a more introspective album, The Fabled City, but (somewhat conversely) this time he’s amped-up and ready to rock.
Read our exclusive interview with Tom Morello on SuicideGirls.com.
